Popular Bible Verses from Genesis 3

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Now the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a thing of lust for the eyes, and that the tree was desirable for imparting wisdom. So she took of its fruit and she ate. She also gave to her husband who was with her and he ate.

But the serpent was shrewder than any animal of the field that ADONAI Elohim made. So it said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from all the trees of the garden’?”

I will put animosity between you and the woman— between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will crush his heel.

To the woman He said, “I will greatly increase your pain from conception to labor. In pain will you give birth to children. Your desire will be toward your husband, yet he must rule over you.”

By the sweat of your brow will you eat food, until you return to the ground, since from it were you taken. For you are dust, and to dust will you return.”

Then to the man He said, “Because you listened to your wife’s voice and ate of the tree which I commanded you, saying, ‘You must not eat of it’: Cursed is the ground because of you— with pain will you eat of it all the days of your life.

Then He said, “Who told you that you are naked? Have you eaten from the Tree from which I commanded you not to eat?”

And He expelled the man; and at the east of the Garden of Eden He had cheruvim dwell along, with the whirling sword of flame, to guard the way to the Tree of Life.

Now Adam named his wife Eve because she was the mother of all the living.